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Essays & Reportage
Unbeaching the whale: the book
Dean Ashenden
25 March 2024
A different kind of school reform is needed — reform of governance, the sector system and the daily work of students and teachers
Essays & Reportage
Olympic origins
Jock Given
20 March 2024
Queensland premier Steven Miles is learning an old lesson about sporting venues: sometimes it is best to love the ones you have
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Nuclear power, Newspoll and the nuances of polled opinion
Murray Goot
12 March 2024
Is the
Australian
’s polling and commentary doing the opposition any favours?
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Ben Chifley’s pipe
Anne-Marie Condé
7 March 2024
A stalwart supporter of the Labor leader emerges from history’s shadows
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Red flags
Ebony Nilsson
8 February 2024
Communist or not, postwar refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe attracted the attention of Australia’s security services
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How journalism should be done
Peter Martin
30 January 2024
A former colleague pays tribute to longstanding
Inside Story
contributor Tim Colebatch
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John Curtin’s potato
Anne-Marie Condé
26 January 2024
A gift to a prime minister gives a glimpse of the life of an Australian toiler
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Modi’s expatriate army
Hamish McDonald
20 December 2023
Western leaders are distancing themselves from the Hindu nationalism popular in some sections of India’s diaspora
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Israel’s failed bombing campaign in Gaza
Robert A. Pape
8 December 2023
Collective punishment won’t defeat Hamas
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Continent of fire
Tom Griffiths
6 December 2023
Australia’s fatal firestorms have a distinctive and mainly Victorian lineage, but the 2019–20 season was frighteningly new
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A rainy day in Hobart
Anne-Marie Condé
1 December 2023
Where did all that water go?
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The world after John Curtin
Tom Griffiths
24 November 2023
What guidance for the challenges facing the planet can we find in the words of one of Australia’s greatest prime ministers?
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The Lebers, a family of ratbags
Seumas Spark
23 November 2023
Shaped by history, Sylvie Leber and her forebears have campaigned for social change
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Medicare’s forty-year update
Mike Steketee
1 November 2023
The federal government’s plans are receiving cautious support in unexpected quarters
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Climate’s quiet achiever
Akshat Rathi
20 October 2023
When the history of electric vehicles is written, who will be seen as central?
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Two worlds
Louise K. Hansen
12 October 2023
“You don’t even look Nyoongar,” they told the author as a schoolgirl. “Are you sure you’re Aboriginal?”
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The voice of Alexis Wright
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
11 October 2023
Her novels paradoxically activate readers’ critical faculties while compelling us to trust the narrative voice
Essays & Reportage
Yes or No, history won’t go away
Peter Mares
10 October 2023
Regardless of the outcome of the Voice referendum, Australia’s past will continue to unsettle the present
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What the Nobel Prize tells us about economics
David Walker
10 October 2023
This year’s winner is another challenge to critics of the youngest of the prizes
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A steady path to sovereignty?
Tim Rowse
6 October 2023
The Voice debate has opened up the complexity of First Nations political thought
Essays & Reportage
France’s stubborn grip
Hamish McDonald
5 October 2023
While the French president risks a new civil war just three hours’ flight from Australia, Canberra’s diplomacy remains muted
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Blessed life
John Edwards
4 October 2023
With a new album just released and seventy years of playing under his belt, jazz pianist Mike Nock continues to perform, compose and mentor
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You’re not going to buy it are you?
Anne-Marie Condé
29 September 2023
A chance find in a Melbourne collectibles shop transports the author back to 1988’s “celebration of a nation”
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Self-determination works. The next step is the Voice
Laura Rademaker and Ian Anderson
29 September 2023
It’s time for the Constitution to recognise the benefits of empowering Indigenous communities
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A Dunera life
Seumas Spark
17 September 2023
Sent to Australia as an “enemy alien” by Churchill’s government, Bern Brent spent decades challenging conventional accounts of the internees’ lives
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Odyssey down under
Tom Griffiths
8 September 2023
A new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. Here’s what it might look like.
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Weaponising Pushkin
Kyle Wilson
4 September 2023
With monuments to Alexander Pushkin being removed all over Ukraine, the arrival of a bust of the poet in Canberra gains extra resonance
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Ukraine’s struggle for democracy
Mark Edele
28 August 2023
Despite a series of obstacles, post-Soviet Ukraine has been moving in the right direction
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“You need to run it as a public service because that is what it is”
Mike Steketee
16 August 2023
A string of scandals and cost-blowouts in social services look a lot like symptoms of a deeper problem
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The making of a prime minister
Frank Bongiorno
15 August 2023
How did Australia’s thirty-first PM make it to the Lodge?
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